[Ubuntu] Node:10 docker images will be removed on November, 15

[miketimofeev]

Breaking changes

We are going to remove node:10 and node:10-alpine docker images from the list of pre-cached images on VM.

Target date

November 15, 2021

The motivation for the changes

Node.js 16 has moved to Active LTS status and is ready for general use. According to our Software and image guidelines
we support not more than 3 latest LTS OS\tool versions docker images, which for Node.js are 12, 14 & 16 at the moment.

Possible impact

If your builds rely on either node:10 or node:10-alpine docker images they can be slower due to the necessity of pulling the images from the docker hub.

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

Nothing is required — if there is no local image docker will pull it automatically from the docker hub.

[m7kvqbe1]

Will you be making 16.x.x the default node runtime for ubuntu-latest?

[miketimofeev]

@m7kvqbe1 yes, we will announce it soon.

[miketimofeev]

The images were deployed